O'CONNOR: We have been e-mailing back and forth all day with Gore aides who have been in a conference call huddled with the vice president.

CNN: Eileen O'Connor

Google has said that Ormandy was working independently of his employer, and Ormandy has defended himself on Twitter, writing that he only revealed the bug on the Full Disclosure mailing list after first attempting to negotiate a 60-day deadline for Microsoft to patch the flaw.

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